A hidden poetic space behind electronic branches - Chorro de Luz

www.chorrodeluz.net

I think that it could be a good reason to break these long weeks of intellectual dryness by telling you some really worthwhile news. And that it is not exactly "news", because it is something that began to work certain time ago. Anyway, for me was a totally illuminated moment when few days ago I found by chance in the Internet Chorro de Luz (something that could be translated as "Stream of Light"), a fascinanting broadcasting adventure carried out by the journalist and music critic Ismael G. Cabral based in the city of light, Seville [SP].

Chorro de Luz is an interesting Spanish-spoken showcase, via both radio and blog, on very carefully selected contemporary music with excellent commentaries that invite you once a week to reflect on creation, actuality and diverse artistic approaches around music. if you are around Seville, you could follow it in Radiópolis 98.4 FM / Sevilla, Monday from 17.00 to 18.00 (repetition on Friday from 15.30 to 16.30). If not, you could search it at the Internet, in www.chorrodeluz.net, where besides downloading any program in mp3 format, you can read extended posts on the music displayed. I wish you enjoy this weekly treasure.

Metal splinters, helicopters with umbrella and PVC voices

EXTRUSION [2010]

8-channel tape piece

Ángel Arranz

'Everything is curved'. So did my dear colleague Casper Schipper define his first listening to Extrusion, the second electronic piece from a series of four works, which I expect to finish in 2011. Maybe it is because of my renewed interest in Baroque aesthetics, maybe because of a more aware use of the spatial/temporal qualities of the materials, certainly it results in a more flexible approach to time than even in my previous electronic piece, Electronic Study. The piece was composed thinking about the features of the space in which it has been premiered, the Schoenbergzaal of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. To a certain extent, in Extrusion sounds seem to be closer to the limits of the space they inhabit. I have always found especially suitable the apparently austere concavities of the Schoenbergzaal, an architectural compound of solid bricks and wood. In order to develop spatial gestures of sounds in a physical way, the hall is not hugely big as a large concert hall, but long and wide –and high- enough as to magnify some sonic gestures, which draw a completely new impression of the space fed by the music. So, space becomes a sort of instrument just in the moment when you try to modify the perceptions that the audience have about it in a virtual way along a deconstructed timeline.

Institute of Sonology - Discussion Concert Series - 7th May

Institute of Sonology
Discussion Concert Series
DC #5 – 7th May, 2010
Arnold Schoenbergzaal, 19:30
Royal Conservatory of The Hague

Works of G.M. Koenig, Adalsteinsson, Zweerts, Vinton, Van Paemel/Braet, Konstantinidou, Li and Arranz.

Next Friday 7th May the last Discussion Concert of this season will be celebrated at the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In this occasion the concert will be attended by G.M. Koenig, who will open the program with ‘Ubung fur klavier’, a piece of 1970 interpreted by the Japanese pianist Akane Takada. The program, quite varied in genres, is basically conformed by tape pieces, improvised music, instrumental music, live electronics pieces and dance.

ARTe SONoro – La Casa Encendida, Madrid

La Casa Encendida

23rd April to 30th June

www.lacasaencendida.es

La Casa Encendida organizes the first exhibition in Madrid dedicated to sonic arts, ARTe SONoro. This show wants to bring closer a variety of forms and complexity of sonic arts developed during the last decade. The work of various Spanish artists and international artists conforms the show.

Further information at:

http://www.lacasaencendida.es/LCE/lceCruce/0,0,73537_2238427_73535%24P1%3D16,00.html

Isidro Blasco exhibition - Aquí Huidizo - Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid

c/ Alcalá, 31

28014 Madrid

17th March to 16th May, 2010

Tu. to Sa. 11:00 to 20:30

Su. 11:00 to 14:00

free entrance

Unlike the general chaotic mood last days and the collective hysteria by trip colapses, certain news about a threatening volcano incarnated in the god Thor and serious announcements in the meantime of a new crisis originated over the worldwide airplane sector, unlike the trapped feeling of willing to escape the tyrannical permanence of Madrid architecture and the endless sensation of a Europe that suddenly converts into an enormous abstraction surrounded by cumulus of imaginary ashes and distorted hallucinations from the media, we found another more interesting chaos, organic and silent, formed by real memories and pieces of life meticulously (dis)ordered on wooden structures, delicately bent photographic sheets and imaginary streets that at the same time are real, mental territories seen at once. So, it could be defined doubtlessly as a true pleasure. Fiction over fiction equals real, chaos over chaos equals something pretty close to exquisite order.

Two interviews with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar

Indeed, this is a special event for sonologists, musicologists, composers and in general for lovers of electronic music. Two interviews with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar repectively have been published by the composer and musicologist Ángel Arranz. These interviews were realized during 2009 within the framework of the Institute of Sonology of The Hague.

Ángel Arranz: composer, sonologist and musicologist

We would like to announce the release of the website of the composer Ángel Arranz.

Ángel Arranz [1976] is a Spanish composer who lives and works in The Netherlands as an associate researcher at the Institute of Sonology of The Hague.

His music explores hybridization between acoustical instruments and electronics, spatiality in several plans of the musical realization and multi-instrumental assemblage. As a sort of mental territories, his music explores basically the utilization of time as a constructional matter through applied mathematics. He has developed an interesting algorithmic composition environment based on the utilization of waveforms [also named 'seeds'], which work as controllers of the musical parameters, being used in turn to control the field where instruments are written. Seeds control the smallest aspects of the composition as well as the most general structures.

The dK Projection Blog

Welcome to the dK <Projection> blog

This is the blog of The dK <Projection> a new cultural platform that revolves around contemporary music, interdisciplinary arts, especially the relationship between architecture and music and electroacoustic music.

From now on, in this blog you can find interesting items related with electronic music, computer music, algorithmic composition, references to a variety of sonological subjects, such as architecture and music, literature related to it, articles, interviews, et cetera. Also, this is will be the place in which we will announce our activities and calendar.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoy writing it!

All the best,

the dK <Projection> Team